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Bob Dylan Trivia
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- His two most recent albums to date, 1997's 'Time out of Mind' and 2001's 'Love and Theft' were both voted Album of the Year in the Village Voice's annual critics' poll.
- Although he continues to influence musicians today, perhaps Dylan's most significant influence was on other musicians of his own generation in the 60s. Among the musicians he influenced to start writing deeper, more introspective material were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and Paul Simon, among many, many others. Ironically, when those he influenced were at their creative peaks in the late 60s, Dylan himself was in seclusion (after a motorcycle accident) and he really had nothing to do with the "hippie counterculture."
- Awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award, in 2000.
- Besides his self-titled first album and a few albums in the early 70s, he has been the writer of almost everything he has recorded.
- Awarded an honorary degree at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). [June 2004]
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